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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rowe think about this first bite of food?
(a) The taste is too strong.
(b) It is okay.
(c) It is the best food he has ever tasted.
(d) It is very sugary.

2. When they learn that some Vietcong prisoners are being tried in Saigon, Rowe prays they will be sentenced to what?
(a) Life in prison.
(b) Community service.
(c) Prison.
(d) Death.

3. What will be sold by the guards?
(a) The excess meat hunted by the men.
(b) The excess vegetables grown by the men.
(c) The excess food stolen by the men.
(d) The excess fish caught by the men.

4. What will be used in this selling process?
(a) The money the men had on them when they were captured.
(b) The money given to the prisoners to buy extra items they want.
(c) The men's valuables.
(d) The men's bartering tactics.

5. Why are the men not allowed to buy food?
(a) The Vietcong are providing their food.
(b) They catch enough fish that they do not need other food.
(c) They need other supplies more desperately.
(d) There is no food to buy.

6. Rowe learns that he has been promoted to what during his absence?
(a) Lieutenant.
(b) Sergeant.
(c) Major.
(d) General.

7. What is Rowe told he can buy with the money he earns from his excess fish?
(a) Garlic and pepper.
(b) Sugar and tea.
(c) Sugar and pepper.
(d) Sugar and salt.

8. How quickly is Rowe recognized?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Very quickly.
(c) Not very quickly.
(d) Very slowly.

9. What does Rowe say that the guards refuse to accept?
(a) Medicine was all that was necessary to keep the prisoners healthy.
(b) Adequate food was all that was necessary to keep the prisoners relatively healthy.
(c) The men will not give in to the Vietcong's requests.
(d) The men are all willing to die for their country.

10. What lies did Rowe tell upon his capture?
(a) He is a pilot and has no military training.
(b) He is a doctor and has no military training.
(c) He is only a sergeant.
(d) He is an engineer and has no military training.

11. What does he name them?
(a) Chang and Eng.
(b) Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
(c) Samson and Delilah.
(d) Herc and Ajax.

12. Why are these people patrolling the area?
(a) They are in search of stragglers.
(b) They are in search of citizens.
(c) They are in search of Americans.
(d) They are in search of POWs.

13. Why does Rowe want the Vietcong prisoners to be sentenced to this?
(a) So the Vietcong will consider letting him go.
(b) So the Vietcong do not feel the need to execute American prisoners in retaliation.
(c) So he can see some retaliation being taken out on the Vietcong.
(d) So the Vietcong will see the power of the U.S.

14. How does Rowe find that he is about to be moved to "the Zone" where he would do as commanded or die?
(a) He is told by the camp commander.
(b) One of the Vietcong has decided to try to help him.
(c) Occasionally he has the opportunity to go through papers in the camp.
(d) He overhears his captors talking.

15. Rowe is told that he and the other prisoners can do what?
(a) Grow vegetables.
(b) Hunt.
(c) Fish.
(d) Steal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else do the men buy?

2. Why does Rowe wave his mosquito netting?

3. How does Rowe find the will to resist?

4. What do these animals do for Rowe?

5. What happens to Rowe's camp?

(see the answer keys)

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